Colonization of the Agri Decumates

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Was the Roman conquest of the Agri Decumates, a region in present southwestern Germany.

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1. Colonization of the Agri Decumates during Vespasianus

Roman expansion in the Agri Decumates (a region in present southwestern Germany) under emperor Vespasianus.

January 75: In Germany, it was Vespasian who began the advance in those territories then called Agri Decumates (located between Upper Germany and Rezia), thanks to the campaigns of the Legatus Augusti pro praetore of Gallia Lugdunensis, a certain Gneo Pinario Cornelio Clemente in 74, who received the ornamenta triumphalia for victorious enterprises in Germany. In fact, the forts of Schleitheim, Hüfingen, Rottweil, Waldmossingen, Offenburg and Riegel am Kaiserstuhl were created.